Granada la bella

Lorca takes part as a penitent in the santa María de la Alhambra procession.

5 May:

Banquet in honour of Lorca and Margarita Xirgú on the occasion of the performance of Mariana Pineda in Granada.

11 June:

Passes through Paris on his way to Southampton and thence to New York. Travelling with Fernando de los Ríos.

17 June:

In Oxford.

19 June:

Sets sail for New York. He enrolls at Columbia University for a course in English and lives at the Furnald Hall student residence.

16 August:

Visits Philip Cummings at Eden Mills (Vermont). Lorca leaves a packet of papers with Cummings which contain a diatribe against “those working against him”, including Dali. Lorca asks Cummings to destroy them if anything happens to him; which, of course, it does and he does, in 1961.

29 August:

Leaves Eden Mills to stay with Ángel del Río at Bushnellsville in the Catskill Mountains and later Federico ico de Onís at Gardnertown, Newburgh.

20 September:

Returns to New York and takes up residence this time at John Jay Hall, Columbia University.

December:

Wedding in Granada of Lorca’s sister, Concha, with the doctor Manuel Fernández-Montesinos.

TIMES

January:

In Cadaqués, Dalí and Buñuel are working on their surrealistic film Un chien andalou.

6 June:

First showing of Le chien andalou in Paris

October 1929:

Wall Street Crash

WORKS

January:

La degollación de los inocentes published in La Gazeta Literaria with an illustration by Dalí (the last collaboration between the two).

6 Febrary:

The performance of el Amor de Don Perlimplín con Belisa en su jardín, being rehearsed at Cipriano Rivas Cherif’s Caracol theatre, is banned on the eve of its opening night purportedly because of the death of King Alonso XIII’s mother.

29 April:

Mariana Pineda is performed in Granada.

August:

writes the first poems of Poeta en Nueva York ( Rey de Harlem and 1910(Intermisión) ).

LEFT: Fernando de los Rios, family friend, takes Lorca to NY. CENTRE: self-portrait of poet in NY. RIGHT: New York ca. 1930.

1930

LIFE.

January :

Leaves John Jay Hall to share a room with José Antonio Rubio Sacristán (an old friend from the Resi in Madrid) who has just arrived in New York.

6 February:

La Argentinita and Ignacio Sánchez Mejías arrive in New York. Starts working with La Argentinita on arrangements for voice and piano accompaniment of Spanish popular songs.

6 March:

Arrival in Cuba. Friendship with the Loynaz family.

30 June:

Arrives in Cádiz, Spain.

TIMES

28 January:

Dictator Primo de Rivera is replaced by more moderate General Dámaso Berenger.

12 December:

Military rebellion in favour of the Republic in Jaca (Huesca). Its leaders, Galán and García Hernández are executed.

WORKS

March-June:

Gives talks in Cuba on La mecánica de la poesía; Paraíso cerrado...; Canciones de cuna españoles; La imagen poética de don Luis de Góngora; La arquitectura del cante jondo. He is also working on El Público (which he finishes in the summer in Granada and later in the year reads in Carlos Morla Lynch’s house in Madrid) and Así que pasen cinco años. Writes Son de negros en Cuba and finishes Oda a Walt Whitman.